So What’s the Deal Here?Some numbers might prove that piracy hasn’t been as bad for the Recording Industry as the RIAA would have you think. While it’s not up to me to dispute the legality of pirating music or other copyrighted materials, I feel obligated to take a look at some numbers just to be sure that the initial outbreak of music piracy...

Apple has made some pretty ambitious, not to mention arrogant, statements in the last year. Particularly in their “Political Ad” style of advertisement, statements that–at the very least–imply that Macintosh has built a completely flawless operating system exempt from viral attack. This is *not* so.  While it is true that the amount...

YouTubeYouTube was founded by Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, all of whom were employees of PayPal in February 2005. The YouTube domain went active on February 15th 2005, and months later–in May of ’05–YouTube made its official debut to the public. The idea was to provide a social networking-like website where people could share...

The “Rundown” Quite recently Apple has forced a third-party ‘podcast’ aggregator to change its name with a Cease and Desist letter. The target of this letter was the cross-platform aggregator known as “iPodder” claiming its name was infringement upon Apple’s trademark on “iPodcast”. iPodder is now going under the...

An introduction to DestructionThere’s this immense gray area in the realm of Hi-Definition Picture Technology–it’s a new technology, relatively speaking, yet it’s already seen a huge rise in popularity and use in the last few years. And along comes HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, only which DVD Reader/Writer format to use for Hi-Definition DVDs is in...

Building a PC, especially your first PC, can be a long and tedious process that is potentially very expensive. In fact, it is almost always expensive. Before you put the screw driver into that first screw and open the case, you must consider many things including both price range and what your ultimate purpose for it will be. What you have planned with your PC...